Greetings to all!
I'm new to Buddhist practice. I've had a vague interest in Buddhism for as long as I can remember, but I never took up practice until recently. I'm already noticing a change in my behaviour and mentality, and I'm looking forward to more progress in the future!
I lack any form of Buddhist community where I live right now, so I'm turning to the fine folk of Dhamma Wheel to be my connection to the community.
Metta,
M
Hello from Newfoundland!
- wornoutskin
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Hello from Newfoundland!
He who neither goes too far nor lags behind,
greedless he knows: "This is all unreal,"
--such a monk gives up the here and the beyond,
just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
greedless he knows: "This is all unreal,"
--such a monk gives up the here and the beyond,
just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome wornoutskin!
Mike
Mike
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome, wornoutskin
DW is great for those who are geographically isolated from Buddhist centres. Hang around long enough and you will develop a genuine virtual group of dhamma-friends.
Kim
DW is great for those who are geographically isolated from Buddhist centres. Hang around long enough and you will develop a genuine virtual group of dhamma-friends.
Kim
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Hi workoutskin and welcome to the forum!
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
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Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
Interesting username.
Interesting username.
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Hi Worn Out Skin
Welcome to Dhamma wheel!
Welcome to Dhamma wheel!
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome to DhammaWheel!
With metta,
Chris
With metta,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
I see the word 'Newfoundland' and I always think of those wonderful, big, black dogs, who love water! Welcome to you, nice to meet you, wornoutskin!!
You will not be punished FOR your 'emotions'; you will be punished BY your 'emotions'.
Pay attention, simplify, and (Meditation instruction in a nutshell) "Mind - the Gap."
‘Absit invidia verbo’ - may ill-will be absent from the word. And mindful of that, if I don't respond, this may be why....
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Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Yes, I'd chosen it from "The Worn-out Skin: Reflections on the Uraga Sutta" by Nyanaponika Thera (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el241.html).David N. Snyder wrote:Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
Interesting username.
He who neither goes too far nor lags behind,
greedless he knows: "This is all unreal,"
--such a monk gives up the here and the beyond,
just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
greedless he knows: "This is all unreal,"
--such a monk gives up the here and the beyond,
just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
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Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome to DW wornoutskin!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
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-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Greetings wornoutskin and welcome to DW!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
- BB
Re: Hello from Newfoundland!
Welcome friend
Get the wanting out of waiting
What does womanhood matter at all, when the mind is concentrated well, when knowledge flows on steadily as one sees correctly into Dhamma. One to whom it might occur, ‘I am a woman’ or ‘I am a man’ or ‘I’m anything at all’ is fit for Mara to address. – SN 5.2
If they take what's yours, tell yourself that you're making it a gift.
Otherwise there will be no end to the animosity. - Ajahn Fuang Jotiko
https://www.youtube.com/user/Repeataarrr
What does womanhood matter at all, when the mind is concentrated well, when knowledge flows on steadily as one sees correctly into Dhamma. One to whom it might occur, ‘I am a woman’ or ‘I am a man’ or ‘I’m anything at all’ is fit for Mara to address. – SN 5.2
If they take what's yours, tell yourself that you're making it a gift.
Otherwise there will be no end to the animosity. - Ajahn Fuang Jotiko
https://www.youtube.com/user/Repeataarrr